They are picking Crawley on ‘potential’, not runs in the CC - he’s got a first class average of 30!

What a load of nonsense. Rovers fans are no better or worse than any other. Some clubs just happen to have more bums on seats than others due to demographics, catchment areas etc, how on earth you can judge Rovers fans as ‘less passionate’ is beyond me. As for ‘atmosphere’, you obviously don’t go to many away games, as Ewood in no different than the vast majority of grounds. The PNE game had a crackling atmosphere, especially in the Blackburn End, but if you chose to sit in the emptiest stand, why are you surprised that it wasn’t rocking in there? And as for that bizarre stuff about the 90s, If you honestly preferred to see the club you were supposedly ‘fanatical’ about followed by one man and his dog than see the fantastic club of ours with 25,000 crowds and winning major trophies, then, well, what can you even say to that?!

Look great on Insta though!

I’ve never called for his head, as plodding along season after season has fit with what the present incarnation of ‘the club’ seems to be content with. Objectively he’s done fine, some of the nonsense about him being a ‘terrible manager’ was always silly. I’ve never for a second expected him to leave before his contract ran out, why would the owners and SW want the bother of a managerial hunt? So I’ve never really given his position much thought, my ire has always been pointed at the carpet baggers running the club in such a tin pot way. He would’ve have gone at a normal club last season, no question, but we aren’t one, so in a warped way, the detached ownership model and ever changing budgets we have here, gives managers time and space to get stupid ideas and systems out of their head, I.e. SG constantly out wide, the ‘possession game’ that obviously didn’t suit the squad we had etc etc, and can do total 180s of teams and tactics. I do think we’ll fall away, due to a combination of TM’s team’s tendency to lose form in the second half of the season and a small squad, but with a chance to to go into the new year, at a club that I still feel is shambolic in many areas, top of the Championship, then of course, a new contract would have every right to be offered.

Not always kids… always on a section of an Amazon 📦 too 😁

Fair play to you for picking up my baton on that one! 😁

Pretty sure Fylde are fully pro, which made it very embarrassing for them to end up in National North when their plan was to be in the EFL for 2022.

Good effort considering all the Covid shenanigans, Sky coverage and no public transport.

Thank Christ I don’t go into that thread 😁

Good god (!) Didn’t realise the measures contained within the Coronavirus Act was akin to a belief system, but 👌

Amazing that two years on that you still take the pronouncements of politicians at face value. There won’t be a vote, if stadiums are to to BCD, they’ll go BCD and that’s that.

They were extended in October to March next year.

Bit upset you wouldn’t take me at my word, 😢 , but there you go - Section 52, page 35. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1019668/coronavirus-act-2020-ninth-two-monthly-report.pdf

They aren’t new measures, in contrast to vaccine passports, so are already covered by the Coronavirus Act.

No vote needed.

You maybe right, but for me there’s a good chance we don’t see Barnsley or Hudds…

Yes, I do think the Act will be used to make games go BCD.

Pretty sure that under the Coronavirus Act, the government reserves the right to close down events deemed a threat to public health.

He seems to really struggle to differentiate between what he, and many others, of course, want or think should happen, with the realities of what probably will happen.

Case in point ⬆️

There’s a (dwindling) hardcore that love it, which is fair enough if you’ve sat in your seat for 20/30 years. However, it’s striking that now it’s not the cheapest part of the ground it’s emptied far more than any other stand this season, obviously plenty (of those that haven’t just stopped entirely) have made a beeline for the JW. Which is exactly what you imagine the club wants; keeps more seats facing the cameras full and it also becomes easier for it to follow the BBU and DE Lower into closure…

Will it really, who knew! There's also things called ‘briefings’, ‘leaks’, ‘off the record chats’, ‘backchannels’. But as always Chaddy, you seem to struggle with reading between the lines.

Yeah think Henry Winter may have a bit more of an inside line to the clubs and PL then your good self, Chadster 😁

ST sales down, crowds…

Excellent, I was worried for a moment…